The Cheyenne

by Rosier, Paul C.

• ISBN13: 9781604137972
• ISBN10: 1604137975
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-30
• Publisher: Facts on File

Summary

The Cheyenne covers the storied history of this highly recognizable tribe, from its origins to its interactions with Europeans and later the U.S. government, to its place in the United States today.

Author Biography

Samuel Willard Crompton is a historian and biographer who lives in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Crompton has written many books for Chelsea House, and has twice served as a Writing Fellow for Oxford University Press in its production of the 24-volume American National Biography. Crompton teaches history at Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts. Paul C. Rosier currently serves as associate professor of history at Villanova University. His latest book, Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press), is winner of the 2010 Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
No Finer Race of Men	p. 14
Early Cheyenne History	p. 20
The Cheyenne and the U.S. Government	p. 30
Fort Laramie	p. 41
Massacres and Migrations	p. 52
Custer and Little Bighorn	p. 63
Exodus	p. 76
Reservation Days	p. 86
World Wars and the Great Depression	p. 95
The Cheyenne Today	p. 108
Chronology and Timeline	p. 120
Glossary	p. 124
Bibliography	p. 126
Further Resources	p. 128
Picture Credits	p. 130
Index	p. 131
About the Contributors	p. 137
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Excerpts

Thanks to cowboy-and-Indian movies of the 1950s and 1960s, the Cheyenne are among the best known of all Indian tribes. The moviegoer can readily picture the fast-moving Cheyenne, mounted on handsome horses, battling the U.S. Cavalry. While that image is indeed part of the story, the Cheyenne tribe is about much more than 19th-century warfare. The Cheyenne have persevered through strange and difficult times to emerge as one of the best adapted of all Great Plains peoples. They fought the U.S. Army with considerable success, but after the eventual defeat, the Cheyenne changed to a life of cattle herding and Plains farming, with tractors and harvesters as much a part of their lives as horses and war bonnets. The Cheyenne covers the storied history of this highly recognizable tribe, from its origins to its interactions with Europeans and later the U.S. government, to its place in the United States today.